Minneapolis Council Member Responds: Cyclists Breaking Laws

Included are bike-car crash data for the city of Minneapolis, which shows that the anecdotal percentage blame suggested by a police officer isn’t held up by the annual data (2006), and the observation that in ‘investigation’ of bicyclist behavior, the KSTP team themselves violated multiple traffic laws in their own right.

Julie Kosbab is an online marketing consultant and active transportation advocate living in Anoka County, Minnesota. She was one of Minnesota's only League of American Bicyclists Certified Instructors when certified in 2005. She is a past member of the National Bicycle Tour Directors Association. She has 2 children and 4 bicycles. Find her on Twitter as @betweenstations.